If you think — with good reason — that Some of the Liberal Media Reactions to the Charlie Kirk Memorial Service Were Insane (merci à Sarah Hoyt, aussi pour le hyperlien), and if you think — with good reason — that Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk have exposed the media’s depravity (merci à Ed Driscoll), then you should see, and hear, the heights to which France's hysterical TV and radio channels climbed in their raving and ranting.
After helping to organize an homage for Charlie Kirk in Paris two days before the TPUSA founder's memorial service, the ex-pat group Republicans Overseas France is back in the news, having decided to launch a major legal counter-attack.
Indeed, during and in the wake of Sunday's memorial service, French TV channels were replete with a plethora of drama queens using the most foul language to describe the (entirely peaceful) crowds in Glendale, Arizona. You know the verbiage by now: fascists, Nazis, religious nuts, even members of the Taliban.
ROF collected a handful of the most depraved and insane comments in what can only be called a modern-day display of anti-Americanism (video at the hyperlinks):
• Appearing on France Info on September 21, former French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti said of
the Kirk Memorial event: “It inspires me with disgust and fear. All fascist movements have as a
characteristic to victimize themselves and to instrumentalize their so-called heroes who died in
battle” (The ministry of culture seemed determined to overlook the left's pantheon of larger-than-life heroes and martyrs during the past century, such as Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, not to mention Che Guevara.)
• During the program C Politique broadcast on France Télévision’s France 5 on September 21, one Judith Perrignon declared, regarding the Charlie Kirk tribute: “American
white supremacism is completely connected to Hitler’s racial ideology … The first time I watched the footage, I thought of the Nazi rallies
that took place in the United States in the 1930s. There were large
gatherings … The connection is still there.” Just as scandalous was the mere fact that the “C Politique” host, Thomas Snégarof, did not, in any way, attempt to contradict his guest, even partially.
• On September 22, during the program Les Partis Pris broadcast alive on TF1's LCI, Abnousse Shalmani
said: "It was an evangelical mass of religious nuts — and I am carefully weighing my words — and all of this had nothing to envy of the Taliban before the launch of a crusade. Everything was soaked in an atmosphere of violence and a crusade barely contained…" (The word "crusade" comes from the word "cross" — thus, whether considered in a positive or in any other light, it only pertains to Christians; the word for Muslims and Islamists and other types of Taliban being "Jihad" — a word scrupulously avoided by the Frenchwoman born in Tehran.) In a registered letter on September 30, LCI responded to a ROF request for "un droit de réponse" (a right of reply) by turning it down.
• Again on LCI, a former U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Charles Adams, compared Charlie Kirk’s death to the 1933 Reichstag Fire, which shortly preceded
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. A direct descendant of two of America's earliest presidents (John Adams and John Quincy Adams), the TDS-laden Democrat and vocal supporter of
Barack Obama declared that “I would even say that for me this story of the murder,
rightfully condemned, represents for Trump what the fire of the Reichstag represented for Adolf Hitler
at the time. The parallel is absolute and obvious.”
Prior to that, the presenter of France Culture, Guillaume Erner, wrote an editorial called "Je suis Charlie." That lead to outrage in the journalists' union, la Société des journalistes de France Culture, and Guillaume Erner, a former writer at Charlie Hebdo no less (where the phrase originated in the wake of the 2015 shootings), felt he had no choice but to apologize when confronted by the union's denunciation: "By obscuring Kirk's extreme verbal violence, which contributes to endangering already vulnerable minorities, this post tends to elevate the influencer into a symbol of freedom of expression," said the SDJ, which fears that this stance will cast "discredit and suspicion on our entire network" in a context of "repeated attacks" against public broadcasting. As for the title, France Culture decided to change it.
Of course, this brings us all the way back to square one: the murder of someone like Charlie Kirk is What Is Bound to Happen When You Constantly Refer to Your Adversaries as "Fascists" and as "Threats to Democracy".
As PJMedia's Matt Margolis points out,
The left’s habit of slapping labels like “fascist” or “Nazi” on its
political opponents isn’t just name-calling; it’s a green light for
violence. [Greg] Gutfeld spelled it out with brutal clarity: “You label someone a fascist
or a racist or a Nazi, it makes you free to attack them, and that has
been the ideology from the start.”
Glenn Reynolds adds that
“Nazi” just means “political opponents the left has marked for death.”
We all know that now.
As for Ed Driscoll, he quotes John Nolte:
“Remember this: The corporate media, Democrats, and Hollywood don’t call
us Nazis because we’re Nazis. They call us Nazis to justify their
ongoing murder campaign against us.”
All of which led one ROF spokesman to appear on
Morandini's CNews show Tuesday morning, in order to inform the French public that the group of ex-pats was filing complaints with ARCOM (
l'Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique or the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication, France's administrative agency responsible for both audiovisual and digital communications).
Nicolas Conquer, spokesperson for Republicans Overseas France, was Jean-Marc Morandini's guest on "Morandini Live" on CNews. He notably discussed a segment broadcast Sunday evening on C Politique on France 5 …
While discussing the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, journalist and novelist Judith Perrignon said on the show: "The first time I saw the footage, I thought of the Nazi rallies that took place in the United States in the 1930s. There were large gatherings."
"I jumped out of my seat when I heard this comparison," declared Nicolas Conquer, "while we were attending this tribute, which was magnificent and poignant. We see this contrast, which is disconnected and truly an aberration […] The moderator, Thomas Snégaroff, doesn't correct his guest. He agrees with her. It demonstrates this ideological bias."
He added: "I'm obviously contacting ARCOM. We're also going to file a complaint for incitement to hatred against a group — Christian conservatives, MAGA supporters. By normalizing this comparison with Hitler and Nazism, they're targeting activists. This is extremely serious!"
"We are calling on Arcom to take responsibility rather than tracking down the statements of [exclusively right-wing] activists. It should monitor what is said about the public service," he concluded.
As Randy Yaloz and Paul Reen prepare the official statements of Republicans Overseas France, allow us to inject a bit of humor, with
the Babylon Bee and
Cynical Publius providing a touch of tongue-in-cheek sarcasm
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